Book contents
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- 19 Primitivism in Hunter and Gatherer Languages
- 20 Language Shift in the Subarctic and Central Plains
- 21 Uto-Aztecan Hunter-Gatherers
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
19 - Primitivism in Hunter and Gatherer Languages
The Case of Eskimo Words for Snow
from Part VI - North America
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020
Book contents
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- 19 Primitivism in Hunter and Gatherer Languages
- 20 Language Shift in the Subarctic and Central Plains
- 21 Uto-Aztecan Hunter-Gatherers
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
The Eskimo branch of the Eskimo-Aleut language family can be divided into three subgroups: Inuit-Inupiaq, Yupik, and Sirenikski. Inuit-Inupiaq is a group of closely related varieties that form a dialect chain, extending from eastern Greenland over the Canadian Arctic to northern Alaska, and southward to the northern and eastern shores of Norton Sound. Four mutually unintelligible languages can be distinguished within the Yupik subgroup of Eskimo: Naukanski, spoken exclusively on the Russian mainland; Central Siberian Yupik (henceforth CSY), the language I will take my examples from, spoken on some points of the Chukotka peninsula and on St.
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